Vijeta

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Vijeta
Directed by	Govind Nihlani
Produced by	Shashi Kapoor
Starring	Shashi Kapoor Rekha Amrish Puri Kunal Kapoor
Release date(s)	1982
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Vijeta is a Bollywood film released in 1982. It stars Shashi Kapoor, Rekha, Kunal Kapoor, and Amrish Puri.

Vijeta (The Victor) is the coming of age story of Angad (Kunal Kapoor). Confused like any other teenager trying to find himself and caught in between the marital problems of his mother Neelima (Rekha) and father Nihal (Shashi Kapoor). It is time for him to decide what he wants to do with his life. To select a profession and be someone, Angad chooses to become a fighter pilot with the Indian Air Force. What follows is his struggle to become a victor both with his self and the outer world.

The film is notable for some rarely seen aerial photography of combat aircraft active with the IAF in 1980s. The central charectar of Angad himself is a MiG-21 pilot and is shown flying the aircraft in ground attack role in 1971 war. Much of the movie including the climax involving MiG-21 Bis' was shot at Pune and No.4 Squadron, IAF (the 'Oorials') provided the pilots and planes for the film shooting. The movie included good color footage of the Oorials aircraft in flight and in operations.

[edit] Cast

• Shashi Kapoor as Nihal
• Rekha as Neelima
• Supriya Pathak as Anna Verghese
• Kunal Kapoor as Angad
• Amrish Puri as Wing Commander Verghese
• Om Puri as Arvind (Angad's uncle, Mama)
• Dina Pathak as Angad's grandmother (Biji)
• Shafi Inamdar as Parulkar
• K.K. Raina as Wilson
• Madan Jain as Venkat
• Raja Bundela as Aslam
• Arvind Deshpande as Dr.Deshmukh

[edit] Trivia

The film shows MiG-21 "Bis" version which came into service almost a decade after the 1971 conflict. The MiG-21 'FL' was the most common MiG 21 version in 1971.